tor

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Noun
  • Additionally, the applicants aim to honor the sacred and historical significance of the buttes to Native American history and mythology.
    Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Comprising nearly 463,000 acres of private and leased public land centered on the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, the American Prairie reserve is decidedly un-tropical, a rolling shortgrass prairie that stretches out to the horizon, punctuated by smatterings of trees and rocky buttes.
    Adam Roy, Outside Online, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • President Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson ought to call his bluff.
    The Editors, National Review, 20 May 2025
  • Tour Lake Michigan For a wilder excursion, experienced paddlers can launch at Sturgeon Bay Beach and paddle north along the bluffs of Wilderness State Park to watch golden hour reflect on the water of a remote area—no houses, no roads, no people.
    Outside Online, Outside Online, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • These geomorphic formations of rugged slopes are known locally as ‘hogbacks’ and present a particularly harsh environment in which to try and perfect agricultural techniques.
    Paul Caputo, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
  • The power lines that are perched on the property, its water scarcity, and the fact that Thunder Valley is surrounded on the hogback by trails and open space means it likely won’t be overrun by a housing development anytime soon.
    Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 8 June 2024
Noun
  • Sachiko is a glamorous, modern-minded social outcast, marginalized both for her rejection of Japanese patriarchy and the scars of her and Mariko’s radiation exposure following the 1945 Nagasaki bombings.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 21 May 2025
  • Her aim is to disguise the scar that would give away her status as seemingly the sole person to survive being bitten without turning — or, as Ellie puts it, a chance to wear short sleeves again.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • However, as humanity stands on the precipice of a technological revolution, particularly with the convergence of quantum computing and artificial intelligence the sustainability and viability of UBI as a global approach might no longer be a distant dream but a tangible reality.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
  • The Bills appear on the precipice of another memorable season and will likely be in the Super Bowl conversation all year.
    Joe Buscaglia, New York Times, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • Pigeons also adapted in response to human development, nesting on skyscrapers instead of on cliff faces and expanding their range alongside people.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2025
  • Over the franchise's 30-year span, Cruise has done everything from dangling from a wire in Mission: Impossible to motorcycling off a cliff in Mission Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One.
    Skyler Trepel, People.com, 25 May 2025
Noun
  • There are three crags, and the plan is to develop one at a time, says J.D. Borgeson, the coalition's treasurer.
    Sean Clancy, Arkansas Online, 12 May 2025
  • Ultimately, the Clear Creek crags would only flirt with the wildfire.
    Hannah Provost, Outside Online, 26 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The rupturing fault created an approximately 20 meters (or 65 feet) high new scarp on the seafloor, which in turns caused the water displacement and a series of six tsunami moving both east towards Sumatra, and west towards Sri Lanka, India and Africa—eventually reaching the Atlantic and Pacific.
    David Bressan, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Surrounding that is the environmental protective garment (EPG), the heavy, visible, outer covering of the suit that protects the astronauts from cuts and punctures on a lunar terrain that bristles with jagged rocks and scarps.
    Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
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“Tor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tor. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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